[PHOTO] Dufferin and Bloor, under fresh snow, 11:25 am, Friday

[URBAN NOTE] Eight Toronto links

• Samantha Edwards writes at NOW Toronto about the controversy surrounding the visit of transphobe author Meghan Murphy to give a speech at the Palmerston library, with authors even threatening a boycott of the network.
• Natasha Tusikov writes at The Conversation about how Sidewalk Labs’ proposals for the Port Lands would give it great and unaccountable political power.
• blogTO looks at the 1945 proposal for a subway in Toronto, one with a west-east axis not on Bloor but further south on Queen.
• blogTO looks at Sparkles, the nightclub at the top of the CN Tower that reigned over the Toronto scene in the 1980s.
• Will the Scarborough neighbourhood of Birchcliffe-Cliffside by changed for the worse by new dense construction? The Toronto Star reports.
• People who, in illegally climbing the Scarborough Bluffs, get trapped on said feature might soon be charged with the costs of their own rescue. blogTO reports.
• The growth of popularity of specifically Toronto slang is fascinating. Global News reports.
• Jamie Bradburn shares an old article on St. John’s Norway cemetery, here.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: EtobiCo, Sully’s, Don Mills Road, biking, landlord vs. tenant

• blogTO notesa corner of Etobicoke, bounded by Bloor and Kipling and the Queensway and Islington, is now being banded as the neighbourhood of EtobiCo.
• Sully’s Boxing Gym, once a neighbour of mine on Dupont, is now on Dundas Street West. blogTO reports.
• Sean Marshall takes a look at the problems of Don Mills Road for people not in cars, here.
• The Toronto Star explains a new study exploring why more people in the city do not bike to work, here.
• The sort of landlord-tenant conflict and mistrust described here cannot contribute to a productive city. The Toronto Star reports.

[PHOTO] Looking southwest, Yonge and Bloor

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Metrolinx map, carding, Ontario Place, HIVE, density

• Metrolinx shares a glorious map depicting traffic and trends at the different stops on its many routes.
• NOW Toronto notes how Doug Ford may yet enable carding-like practices by police.
• The criticism by an Ontario government minister of the state of Ontario Place is worrisome. The Toronto Star reports.
• Urban Toronto shares a photo of the construction at the vast Hive site downtown.
• George Popper at Spacing Toronto looks at three neighbourhoods where housing in Toronto can really densify indeed must densify, including the Bloor-Danforth corridor.

[PHOTO] Three photos of evening skies, Yonge and Eglinton and Bloordale/Bloorcourt

Yesterday evening–afternoon time in summer–was glorious, cold but for of bright blue skies. At yonge and Eglinton or at Bloor and Dufferin, I could look up and see light.

[PHOTO] Five photos taken around Castle Frank Station

When I got off at Castle Frank Station last night around 5 o’clock, evening was already beginning to fade into twilight. The yellow leaves of fall stood out in the dim, standing east of the downtown along Yonge as the rush hour traffic inched still further east.

[PHOTO] Three photos of construction on Yonge between Bloor and Wellesley

The construction on Yonge Street is never-ending, and somewhat dramatic at night.

[PHOTO] Three photos of the night in Toronto

The tree light up brightly in blue and green is on Bloor Street East; the night shot was taken south on Bartlett Aveue looking past the tracks; the last photo, black and black, was taken looking past the trees in my backyard.

[PHOTO] Ten photos from a stroll up Philosopher’s Walk early on a Wednesday evening

It had been too long since I had strolled up or down Philosopher’s Walk. Early Wednesday evening, I chose to walk north, from Harbord to Bloor.